groomporter

I had a customer asking about the origin of Farkle, but I don't see it
in any of my books, and the best I have found online so far is that it
was a commercial version of a "tradional" game with the French name
"Dix Mille" or Ten Thousand.

On one website I found this: "Farkle is a commercial version of
the old traditional game of Ten Thousand. Marketed by Farkle Games Inc.
in Texas, USA. It is in a long line of companies who have re-packaged
the game and sold it as their own. There are specially marked dice
manufactured for Farkle but it is best played with a set of six
standard spotted dice and a score-pad. Many commercial versions of Ten
Thousand have been marketed... Cosmic Wimpout (1984, by Cosmic Wimpout)
is a five dice version of the game played with specially marked dice."

Seems like Farkle has become popular among some historical reenactors,
but I'm not finding any documentation for it that far back. Anyone have
more info?

Chas
--
MacGregor Historic Games
http://historicgames.com